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How To Get Your Family On Board With Healthy Eating
27 May 2012
Do you sometimes (often/always?) find it stressful to be responsible for preparing meals for your family, each with their own likes, dislikes, requests, mood of the day, food intolerances or allergies? We all know that meal times aren’t always the easiest, most straight forward or indeed time for family sharing. This is one of the more…
5 Tips To Banish Sugar Cravings
18 March 2012
Banishing sugar cravings has to do with a lot more than will power. Cravings are more often than not caused by a chemical imbalance within the body which leads us to reach for the very foods that cause the imbalance. It’s a vicious circle and one of the reasons why diets don’t work. By adding more…
Raw Vegan Chocolate Orange & Cashew ‘Cheese’ Cake
6 February 2012
You can have your cake and eat it too! There is no more pleasurable way to indulge than with scrumptious, rich yet highly nourishing desserts. ‘A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips’ – we’ve all heard that one before, right? With these cakes, rather than simply satisfying a moment of gustatory enjoyment, more…
My Favourite Dairy Free Hot Drinks: Chai & White Chocolate
4 January 2012
It’s raining…it’s snowing…it’s windy…in any case it’s bloomin’ cold outside!…and you’re all cosy indoors, that open fire roaring and crackling away (imagination, my friends, is a wonderful thing)…all you need now is a wonderful winter warmer. Here are two of my favourite dairy free options. Both recipes have a mild taste, not too sweet, not more…
Raw Mince Pies
18 December 2011
Whether you celebrate Christmas in style with the whole shebang or prefer a quiet, intimate meal without much a-do, we all have our favourite Christmas foods, those familiar flavours that we look forward to as the Christmas lights go up in the street, there’s a somewhat different seasonal hustle and bustle in the air and more…
Rawtella
13 June 2011
Use runny Rawtella as a chocolate sauce on ice cream, as chocolate spread, to make chocolate covered almonds or dip fruit in it (put this in the fridge to have pre-prepared chocolate fruit pieces for dessert)
Project:Food Budget (9/6/11)
9 June 2011
Goal: 1000 kr (approx £117 / $190) Actual: 1040 kr Budget = rounded up for 2 adults preparing 3 meals a day, more or less (any meals eaten out and ‘unplanned snacks’ are not included in this budget as that is highly individual). The goal amount is based on local research that I carried out more…
More than just a Raw Strawberry Jam
27 May 2011
Mmmm love the taste and smell of fresh picked organic strawberries…Our local health food shop is going to have them every day for as long as they last throughout the summer so we’re on a mission to find as many different ways of preparing them as possible. Of course, eating strawberries just as they are is more…
Project: Food Budget (26/5/11)
26 May 2011
Goal: 1000 kr (approx £117 / $190) Actual: 681 kr Budget = rounded up for 2 adults preparing 3 meals a day (any meals eaten out and ‘unplanned snacks’ are not included in this budget as that is highly individual). A pretty non-eventful week I’m afraid…the most exciting thing is that the health food shop more…
Project: Food Budget (19/5/11)
19 May 2011
Goal: 1000 kr (approx £117 / $190) Actual: 626 kr Budget = rounded up for 2 adults preparing 3 meals a day (any meals eaten out and ‘unplanned snacks’ are not included in this budget as that is highly individual). This week we bought a couple of tins, which we don’t usually do: Coconut more…
